Foundations

Estimated Course Length: 4 Hours 1 Min.

Course Includes: 3 modules which consist of a mixed media approach with roleplays, video interviews with subject matter experts, animation explainer videos, knowledge games, and more

Downloadable PDFs and Companion Videos: 11 downloadable PDFs and three supplemental videos expanding on relevant course topics

Target Audience: Mental Health Providers

Level of Instruction: Intermediate

Prerequisite: None

Instructional Method: Self-paced; interactive; a hybrid of audio, text, video, and learning checks

Accessibility Accommodations: Color contrast; transcripts of video components; closed captioning of audio and video components.

After completing this course, you will be able to describe and employ the following:

1. Identify key contextual concepts of culture, diversity, marginalization, and intersectionality, and how these play a role in the behavioral health treatment field.

2. Describe the rationale for moving towards “cultural responsiveness,” a combination of the effective concepts and practices drawn from “cultural competency” and “cultural humility,” and the main ideas, goals, and benefits of culturally responsive care.

3. Catalog crucial practices and skills to apply cultural responsiveness to one’s clinical work and spheres of influence.

Course Activities for CE Credits:

• Pre-Course Assessment (5 minutes)

• Introduction

• Module 1: Context and Key Concepts (~1 hour and 42 minutes)

• Post-Module 1 Assessment (~5 minutes)

• Module 2: Behavioral Healthcare and Culture (~52 minutes)

• Post-Module 2 Assessment (~6 minutes)

• Module 3: Practicing Cultural Responsiveness (~1 hour and 10 minutes)

• Post-Module 3 Assessment (~5 minutes)

• Conclusion (~3 minutes)